Write Your Kids
Ideas for creating a rich record of your kid’s childhood. Learn more here. Like this? Subscribe below.
Read, Watch, Play, Listen
Whatever media it is your kid is into consuming, write it down so you don’t forget. You’ll be surprised at how often (and sometimes, how reluctantly) their tastes change!
Little Artifacts
The many, silly little artifacts your kid generates on a daily basis might be imbued with a kind of magic when later viewed through the lens of decades.
Through Their Eyes
Tell your kid about how something they did, or ate, or saw, gave you great joy in watching them experience it.
The Games You Play
Kids have an impressive ability to find fun in just about anything (sometimes, to a fault). What's your kid's unique brand of fun?
Breakfast time
Regardless of what it is and how it unfolds, it does - almost every single day - and that makes it the most important meal of the day a ritual worth documenting.
Watershed Moments
Write about a moment where some small thing shifted, and something that might have been taken for granted before, no longer held true.
Stage an Interview
Write down a few questions and stage a little mock audio interview. Encourage them to go deeper on their answers, to really get a rich snapshot a few minutiae of this point in their lives.
Unacknowledged Labors
There’s lots we do for our kids without an expectation of acknowledgement or gratitude. Tell them - not to make them feel bad - but so that they know why you gladly do it anyway.
Recount a Tantrum
Childhood isn't all puppies and sunflowers. So keep things real: recount a temper tantrum where tears were shed, and things were said. (Bonus points if puppies and/or sunflowers figure into your story!)
Weekly Rhythms
When the weeks tick by so fast, and surviving one can feel like such an accomplishment, it’s no wonder we don’t pay much attention to their shape. So, describe your kid’s daily and weekly rhythms.